Colar means ‘to strain/filter’. It is a stem-changing -ar verb (o → ue): cuelo (present), colé (preterite), colado (past participle), colando (gerund).
Colar in use
Cuela el caldo antes de servirloStrain the stock before serving it
Colamos el zumo para quitar las semillasWe strained the juice to remove the pips
Un chico se coló en la cola del cineA boy jumped the queue at the cinema
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Indicative
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ending the ending you addstem letters that changehaber auxiliary
Colarse is very common in Spain and means to jump a queue or sneak in without paying: colarse en la cola, colarse en el metro.
More tenses
The other perfect tenses (haber + past participle) and the past subjunctive
The imperfect subjunctive has two forms: -ra (more common in speech) and -se (more formal; still heard in speech in Spain, mainly written in Latin America). Both are equally correct and interchangeable.
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